Example sentences of "[modal v] never have [been] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andy overtook a container lorry , the kind of thing that should never have been on that road , and hit a Volvo estate car coming in the opposite direction . |
| 2 | He 'd never have been like that in the old days . |
| 3 | ‘ If she had done her job properly , I would never have been in this mess in the first place . ’ |
| 4 | Damn Lori and her unreasoning jealousy ; but for her she would never have been in this position . |
| 5 | And as the years from retirement lengthen , it seems more and more tenuous to group men in terms of long-past work , let alone women who since marriage may never have been in paid work at all . |
| 6 | The other man may never have been in this situation before . |